US National Trends in Opioid-Related Hospitalizations Among Patients With Cancer

Isaac S Chua; Richard E Leiter; Kate T Brizzi; Charles A Coey; Emanuele Mazzola; James A Tulsky; Charlotta Lindvall

doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2019.0042

US National Trends in Opioid-Related Hospitalizations Among Patients With Cancer

JAMA Oncol. 2019 May 1;5(5):734-735. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2019.0042.

Authors

Isaac S Chua^{1

2}, Richard E Leiter^{1

2}, Kate T Brizzi³, Charles A Coey⁴, Emanuele Mazzola⁵, James A Tulsky^{1

2}, Charlotta Lindvall^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
⁴ Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This study evaluates the patient demographics and clinical characteristics of 14 095 opioid-related hospitalizations from the US National Inpatient Sample (NIS) of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP).

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Analgesics, Opioid / adverse effects*
Cancer Pain / drug therapy*
Cancer Pain / epidemiology
Depression / epidemiology
Hospitalization / trends*
Humans
Mental Disorders / epidemiology
Middle Aged
Neoplasms / drug therapy
Neoplasms / epidemiology
Odds Ratio
Substance-Related Disorders / epidemiology
United States / epidemiology
Young Adult

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid

Grants and funding

T32 AT000051/AT/NCCIH NIH HHS/United States